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It's a well-known fact that I absolutely adore lighttpd. Why, you ask?

I run lighttpd on a small cluster of web servers that serve a mix of static and dynamic content. One web server is dedicated to serving static content, and the other two are dedicated to serving dynamic content. The average memory use across all three is around 3.5MB. Average CPU use is almost zero.

But it's not just the low resource usage that I love about lighttpd. It's the downright gorgeous configuration syntax.

We recently began rolling out proper SSL to all of our client-accessable services at work. We're primarily an Apache shop at work, but one server runs lighttpd. Forcing all connections to run over SSL was as simple as: